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Interior Wall Wraps

Floor to ceiling, corner to corner

A wall wrap covers a wall completely. Around door frames, over and around outlets, into the corners, up to the ceiling line, and down to the skirting.

Where a mural is an image applied to a wall, a wrap turns the wall itself into the graphic. There is no visible boundary between the wall and the artwork, which is a different experience to walk into. Part of our interior graphics service, and the indoor counterpart to exterior wall wraps.

Surface types and materials

Smooth cured drywall

Standard adhesive wall vinyl. Best print quality, cleanest result.

Orange peel, knockdown, and skip trowel

Conformable textured-surface film, applied with heat and worked in with a roller.

Cinder block and painted block

Entirely achievable, common in school gyms and warehouse interiors, and considerably more labour because every mortar line has to be individually worked with heat and a roller. Expect the labour cost to reflect that.

 

Brick

As above, with the additional consideration that unsealed brick may not hold at all, in which case a mounted panel is the better answer.

Where wall wraps get used

Gyms and fitness studios. A full wall of imagery changes the entire feel of a training floor, and it is a fraction of the cost of any structural change. One of our most common wrap environments.

Restaurants, bars, and taprooms are building a themed room or a feature area.

Corporate lobbies and stairwells, where a stairwell in particular is usually dead space that a wrap turns into part of the brand experience.

School and university corridors, spirit rooms, athletic facilities, and field houses.

Escape rooms, entertainment venues, and experience spaces, where the wrap is effectively set dressing.

Retail feature walls and fitting room areas.

Corporate history and timeline walls running the full length of a corridor.

Working around obstructions

Outlets, switches, thermostats, and data points are cut around precisely on site with a fresh blade. Done well, the graphic runs right up to the plate edge, and the wrap reads as continuous.

Vents, fire alarms, sprinkler heads, and fire equipment stay completely clear and unobstructed. Covering them breaches the building code, and we will not do it, so we plan the layout around them at the design stage and place any critical artwork elements away from them.

Door frames are trimmed to the edge. Skirting is either wrapped over or stopped at, depending on the profile and what looks right.

What we need to quote it accurately

We will not quote a wall wrap from a single photograph, and any shop that does is guessing. What we need:

Actual measured dimensions, not an estimate. Height and width, and note if the ceiling is not level, because older buildings frequently are not.

Photographs of the whole wall straight on, plus close-up shots of the surface texture.

A list of every obstruction. Outlets, switches, thermostats, data points, vents, fire alarms, fire equipment, door frames, skirting, radiators, wall-mounted fixtures.

The paint history. When was it last painted, and with what?

The surface and the obstructions determine both the material and the labour, and those two things make up most of the price.

Frequently Asked Questions

A wall mural is a printed image applied to part of a wall, while a wall wrap covers the entire wall, floor to ceiling, including around door frames, outlets, and into corners. Wraps cost more because of the additional area and the detailed on-site cutting around obstructions.

Yes. Outlets, switches, thermostats, and data points are cut around precisely on site during installation. Vents, fire alarms, sprinkler heads, and fire equipment are left completely clear, since covering them breaches building code, and iCandy Grafix plans the layout around those elements.

Yes, using conformable textured-surface film worked into the mortar joints with heat and a roller. It is common in school gyms and warehouse interiors. Expect a higher labour cost than smooth drywall, because every joint is worked on individually rather than squeegeed over.

Interior wall wraps typically run $10 to $20 per square foot installed, with the upper end covering textured, block, and brick surfaces that need conformable film and slower installation. iCandy Grafix quotes from measured dimensions and photographs of the actual surface.

A single smooth drywall wall is usually a one-day installation. Textured or block surfaces, or multiple walls in one space, can take two to three days. iCandy Grafix schedules around your operating hours and can work evenings or weekends in occupied buildings.

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